Upcoming events
Whose Academic Freedom Is It Anyway?
Featured news
Call for Papers :: Civil society and social movements in the changing democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
Call for papers: Conference “Institutional Reforms in Ageing Societies”
Space and society :: Special issue in English No. 4 (2016)
Call for Contributions - Refugee protection and the European civil society Workshop and publication
Paksi, V., Nagy, B., & Király, G. (2016) The timing of motherhood while earning a PhD in engineering
International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 11, 285-304. Download here>>
Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?
Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?
We are happy to host visiting scholars who are working on the topics that match our interests in the research funded by an ERC Grant. We use various methods that include agent-based models, advanced models of network dynamics, and text analytics to study the relationship between gossip, reputation, and cooperation. Please consult our homepage for further information on the project.
Solidarity with refugees in the European civil society
Workshop and closing event of the project Social conflicts and identity politics
Researchable, digitized archive of the New York-based Hungarian Human Rights Foundation's (HHRF) is available
Now available: The Principle of Effective Legal Protection in Administrative Law
Our results
‘It's a Mission and a Profession’. The Typology of Rural Entrepreneurs and Their Role in the Social Construction of Landscapes
24 September, 2026
Kiss, M., B. Csurgó, and K. Tomay. 2026. “ ‘It's a Mission and a Profession’. The Typology of Rural Entrepreneurs and Their Role in the Social Construction of Landscapes.” Sociologia Ruralis 66, no. 4: e70057. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.70057
Who supports involved fatherhood? Structural and individual predictors across 26 countries
22 September, 2026
Shackle or hammer? How polarisation influences political corruption
Dogs, Motherhood, and Reproductive Choices: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Country
July, 2026
Ivett Szalma, Lóránt Pélyi, Orsolya Udvari, Kata Mária Udvarhelyi-Tóth, Erika Kispéter, Enikő Kubinyi (2026) Dogs, Motherhood, and Reproductive Choices: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Country. Journal of family Issues, First published Jul 7, 2026
Navigating the In-Between: Immigrant Children’s School Integration in Vienna
Single mothers by choice in Hungary. Motivations for solo motherhood and the importance of genetic ties
The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary
June 2026
Katona, N., & Gábriel, D. (2026). The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary. Economy and Society, 55(2), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2632445
Electoral Revolution: The Collapse of Hungary’s Electoral Autocracy
May 2026
Written by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs-Zágoni
The populist voter trap: why regime change may not end populism
Polarizing transition? New paper by István Benedek
March 2026
Benedek István (2026): Polarizing transition? Opposition strategies and the rise of Péter Magyar and the Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in Hungary. Comparative European Politics.

